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TAMARAC -- A man found his wife lying face-down in a canal behind their house on Saturday night, a spokesman for the Broward Sheriffs Office said. Spokesman George Crolius said the woman, Betty Epstein, 71, of the 4700 block of Bayberry Lane, was last seen at by her husband, Irving, 80, at 7:40 p.m. About an hour later, he saw her lying in the canal and called 911. A sheriff`s deputy jumped into the canal and pulled the unconscious woman out, and paramedics...

Florida Panthers goalie Jose Theodore left Saturday's game against the Carolina Hurricanes after only two minutes, 22 seconds of play after injuring his leg. Theodore, attempting to go from the left to right post on a Carolina rush, sustained the injury on his push off. He immediately went face-down on the ice, before being helped off by Panthers trainers. The Panthers announced that Theodore will not return to Saturday's game, citing a lower-body injury. Scott Clemmensen replaced Theodore in net. Clemmensen allowed a goal four minutes into his appearance.

From the beginning, I couldn't believe anyone could come up with a dumber idea than putting brick panes on our streets and sidewalks. What the heck were they thinking? With the majority of Floridians headed for old age, not to mention the vast amount of handicapped adults and children among us, it's like a crap shoot. Can you imagine being in a wheelchair with a car coming at you and you're stuck in a hole because of a missing brick? Or, how about crossing the street or going down the sidewalk on crutches and falling into a hole?

A man out boating with his three children on Father's Day made a grisly discovery: a body floating near an embankment. According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, the body was discovered at about 9:30 a.m. Sunday in the 1600 block of Southern Boulevard in West Palm Beach. The father, spotting the body floating facedown from the boat, at first thought it was a mannequin. The father called 911. Deputies and officials from the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office responded and found the body of a man wearing only a pair of grey cargo shorts.

Police are trying to identify a man found bludgeoned to death Thursday night, and need to find his killer. Police spokeswoman Sandra King said the man's body was discovered by a woman walking her dog about 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The body was face-down on the bank of a drainage lake at the Centerport business district, 2801 Centerport Circle East. The man suffered severe blunt trauma to his head, King said. The victim carried no identification and had no distinguishing features. Police described the victim as a white male, 20 to 30 years old with short brown hair.

BOCA RATON -- A 76-year-old tourist from New York was dragged through a motel parking lot on Monday when she tried to prevent a robber from stealing her purse, police said. The woman`s collarbone was broken and her shoulder dislocated, according to police reports. She was listed in stable condition at Boca Raton Community Hospital, nursing officials said. The woman and her daughter had been unloading packages from their car, parked at the Holiday Inn at 1950 W. Glades Road about 10 p.m. A man tried to snatch the woman`s purse, and she held on to it as he dragged her facedown across the lot. She eventually let go, and the man ran away with more than $800 in cash and other property, police said.

Several armed men forced their way inside a bakery during the weekend and ordered five men to the ground at gunpoint, police said. Just before 1 a.m. Saturday, the robbers drove up to Panera Bread, 1701 S. Federal Highway, and confronted two delivery drivers, two bakers and a janitor at the bakery. The victims told police the intruders grabbed some of them by their shirts and made them lie face-down on the floor near the coolers while demanding to know where the safe was. According to police reports, the victims told investigators they heard the intruders try to open the safe and cash registers.

A Margate man drowned early Friday after he went swimming in the ocean after a night of heavy drinking, police said. Douglas Edward Miller, 29, died shortly after 2 a.m. when he entered the water near 10 Pompano Beach Blvd., swam south and disappeared amid the waves, police spokeswoman Sandra King said. Miller's friend Edward Concepcion found Miller 10 minutes later floating face-down in the water, King said. Concepcion pulled Miller from the ocean and tried to revive him, King said.

Police responding to a wellness call found a dead woman Sunday evening. The woman, who was in her early 20s, was found face-down on the floor of a house at the 2400 block of 55 Terrace around 5 p.m. It is unclear whether she was shot or stabbed, said Lauderhill police Lt. Gregory Solowsky. When officers arrived at the scene, they saw that the woman was deceased and didn't move the body to interfere with the investigation, said Solowsky. The woman, who has not been identified, had been dead for at least a couple of hours when the officers arrived, said Solowsky.

If you're tired of losing out to flushes and straights playing Texas hold 'em, Antonio Pinzari has a game for you. Pinzari, a professional player, author and instructor, calls it “23 Poker,” because players get three face-down cards (keeping two), and then the dealer turns over three community cards, one by one, with betting rounds in between. The “get-three, discard-one” starting point makes pairs more likely, and the five-card format dramatically reduces the chances of a player making a straight or a flush, he notes.